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Travel by Sail

When most of the fleet tacked, I kept going straight — around the world, down into the Southern Ocean and across North Carolina’s skinniest waters. These are my sailing journals going back to 1992. Plus the practical stuff I learned the hard way, from repairing a broken tiller to provisioning a small boat.
Cruising Sailboat How To
Tillers break. Sausages outlast wine. Here’s what actually works aboard a small sailboat.
Tillers break. Sausages outlast wine. Here’s what actually works aboard a small sailboat.
Solo Circumnavigation — Sailing Sea Bird Around the World
Solo around the world looking for horses on a boat with water pipe masts.
Solo around the world looking for horses on a boat with water pipe masts.
Garage Sail: Canada to the Bahamas
The boat I built as a starving jockey that scratched my sailing itch.
The boat I built as a starving jockey that scratched my sailing itch.
Sailing the Southern Ocean to South Georgia Island
Wrecked on a Southern Ocean rock. Revived at the foot of Shackleton’s grave.
Wrecked on a Southern Ocean rock. Revived at the foot of Shackleton’s grave.
Shackleford Banks — Sailing to the Island of Wild Horses
Battered, bashed and bliss: what sailing 400 years back in time teaches you about horses.
Battered, bashed and bliss: what sailing 400 years back in time teaches you about horses.
Nimble 24 Sailboat Grit
Sailing shoal waters in a frog green yawl.
Sailing shoal waters in a frog green yawl.
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